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liberties and civil rights, how important it is to combine with conservatives and libertarians who are also very concerned about invasions of privacy and invasion of due process, the end of something called proximate cause and a right of trial by jury and presumption of innocence. we have a president, who like his predecessor, but has more drones to play with, who every tuesday morning is given the recommendations as so who lives and who dies in remote countries overseas. he decides courageously which button to push, and seconds later, people disappear and are vaporized. oh, some of them are suspects. suspects of what? trying to overthrow tyrants in their country that we still back? trying to protect their valley? trying to protect customs we may not like? that's why they are vaporized? what if there's other people right near them? what if their family is near them? they are vaporized. we are having our power used this way. we're having our name used this way by unconstitutional agents of criminal a great depression where the president of the united states decliered he'll kill anybody
liberties and civil rights, how important it is to combine with conservatives and libertarians who are also very concerned about invasions of privacy and invasion of due process, the end of something called proximate cause and a right of trial by jury and presumption of innocence. we have a president, who like his predecessor, but has more drones to play with, who every tuesday morning is given the recommendations as so who lives and who dies in remote countries overseas. he decides...
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. >> i was involved with opposing the war in chicago, very much part of our civil rights movement. chicago was the most segregated city in the country at the time. baltimore, maryland, was the second. and what concerned us, and we felt that we had read a lot about the history, the treatment, the poor treatment of the french toward the vietnamese, we were funding that war. in the 1950s. france as well. and, do you have any comments on our use of agent orange against the country that, as far as we could find, hadn't done anything to anybody? and were there any observations you came across on the 1968 democratic convention, and do you see any hope for this country learning something rather than perpetuating -- i did meet soldiers who said they saw shell oil trucks crossing the front lines into north vietnam. i don't know whether you came across any ties to the oil industry. as part of this. thank you. >> in terms of agent orange, i didn't actually run across much of that in terms of what i saw of the documents in the united states. it's one of these issues -- i mean, if i were alive i
. >> i was involved with opposing the war in chicago, very much part of our civil rights movement. chicago was the most segregated city in the country at the time. baltimore, maryland, was the second. and what concerned us, and we felt that we had read a lot about the history, the treatment, the poor treatment of the french toward the vietnamese, we were funding that war. in the 1950s. france as well. and, do you have any comments on our use of agent orange against the country that, as...
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he spoke against the 1957 civil rights bill. we remember him today as one of the last of the jim crow demagogue. he was. he was that. he was one of the last. but when we forget about strofm he was also one of the first of the sun belt conservative. what do i mean by that? what is that? the sun belt it's one of the big stories that is the flow of jobs and resource and population from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and the southwest. in the older post world war ii people. they recruiting industries. they were passing right to work laws. receiving lots of fundings from the federal government to build military at the time when the united states was involved in the cold war against the soviet union. so states like mississippi but states like georgia and texas and florida and southern california and arizona and north carolina are being transformed in the postworld war two period by the historic shift as the period of the sun belt dominance. if you think about every president elected from 1963 comes from state
he spoke against the 1957 civil rights bill. we remember him today as one of the last of the jim crow demagogue. he was. he was that. he was one of the last. but when we forget about strofm he was also one of the first of the sun belt conservative. what do i mean by that? what is that? the sun belt it's one of the big stories that is the flow of jobs and resource and population from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and the southwest. in the older post world war ii...
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was going to alienate a lot of the traditionally southern democratic voters and hoover talked about civil service which is a code word for we are meant to get rid of patronage and hoover carried seven southern states even though he had a pretty good record he abolished segregation when he was the secretary of commerce but that wasn't the way that he campaigned. in 32 the magazine of the naacp tried to get the democrats to write an endorsement of roosevelt and nobody would. a lot more concerned about roosevelt. they didn't know where he stood and he was running with a segregation a list on the ticket so hoover wound up getting three of every four votes income 1932. in 1936 roosevelt got three out of four between 34 to 36 some programs were not specifically directed by social security didn't get money for the domestic farm hand and that was because of the congressman that controlled the key committees. but a lot of federal programs did help blacks as well as rights and they decided the new deal was on their side. at 32 nobody talks about it. it's not a major issue and there were not a huge
was going to alienate a lot of the traditionally southern democratic voters and hoover talked about civil service which is a code word for we are meant to get rid of patronage and hoover carried seven southern states even though he had a pretty good record he abolished segregation when he was the secretary of commerce but that wasn't the way that he campaigned. in 32 the magazine of the naacp tried to get the democrats to write an endorsement of roosevelt and nobody would. a lot more concerned...
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that's one whole aspect in any sort of civil war type situation, which it really is right now. you have the criminalization of society in many ways from people who are trying to make a living possible, and then you have groups that become invested in the civil war and the continuing of the civil war you saw something similar in lebanon. i wrote a piece recently in monitor called the lebanonizeation of syria, and unfarmly, of the many scenarios that could occur, in syria, because it does seem to be -- there's no easy answer. there is absolutely no easy answer to this. american intervention is not the answer. and i would be happy to talk more about that perhaps in the q & a session. what happened in -- what will happen probably in syria, unless the equation on one side or the ice dramatically changed. you have this balance of forces almost where neither side has the wherewithal to land the knockout punch and both sides think they can win and it's very difficult to intervene with any sort of negotiated solution with both sides think they can win. and when this happens in such a ge
that's one whole aspect in any sort of civil war type situation, which it really is right now. you have the criminalization of society in many ways from people who are trying to make a living possible, and then you have groups that become invested in the civil war and the continuing of the civil war you saw something similar in lebanon. i wrote a piece recently in monitor called the lebanonizeation of syria, and unfarmly, of the many scenarios that could occur, in syria, because it does seem to...
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the most important civil rights act in our history. it gives people of color power of the ballot and the immigration act, which opens the gates and our borders people all over the world and fundamentally changes the face and heart of america. this is in one single year. i will tell you is a presidential historian. there are those that would stake their entire domestic reputations on this one of those laws. lbj did all those things in one single year. in 1965. [applause] >> reading these books, reading both of these books, i was struck with such awe and admiration of these people. even with all of those lbj's foibles, which many of us are familiar with. i am a true believer for evermore afterwards. mike, would you talk a little bit about what ladybird accomplished? >> after her first accomplishment was to keep lyndon johnson thing while he was doing all of those great things. giving him a safe haven, if you will, an island of peace, as she described it, every day when he was exerting a tremendous effort. in addition to that, she finishe
the most important civil rights act in our history. it gives people of color power of the ballot and the immigration act, which opens the gates and our borders people all over the world and fundamentally changes the face and heart of america. this is in one single year. i will tell you is a presidential historian. there are those that would stake their entire domestic reputations on this one of those laws. lbj did all those things in one single year. in 1965. [applause] >> reading these...